Scale Military Modeller International – September 2019

4 Scale Military Modeller International January 2016

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What If...?

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military news

Worldwide news and products.

38

previews

An initial look at items received

for preview from manufacturers

45

figures in focus

Worldwide news and products.

48

Armorama

Model of the Month – Husky

49

warship news

Worldwide news and products.

51

book reviews

We take a look at books received for

review from various publishers

72

maintenance manual

The Assault Breacher

32 MAFVA Report

53 IPMS UK

80 Shop and Web Guides

82 And Finally...

SMMI Choice

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O

ne of the things that amazes

me most about this hobby of

ours is the sheer imagination

that you can bring to a build.

Take this month’s feature by Michael Franz,

with his ’could it have been’ Leopold Field

Cannon. These counterfactual, or ‘what if’

ideas always fascinate me, as does

the idea of what might have taken

place had the War not ended in

1945. It’s also both incredible and
      frightening at the same time to
      read about the projects Germans
      had not only on the drawing
      board, but also in protype form!
      Michael’s idea of mounting a
      giant cannon of two E-75 tank
      chassis is just brilliant, and I
      hope you enjoy his build as much
      as I have. Also, continuing the ‘what if’
      theme, and in reality, something completely
      different for SMMI is Snorre Sandviken’s
      Pseudo-Military T-72B, as he adds a unique
      twist to the 1:35 Zvezda kit. It was just so
      bizarre, I had to include it! Elsewhere we
      have a nice ‘British Bulldog’ Achilles build

from Robin Gilby, and a superb DAK Pioneer

figure build from Julian Conde together with

a sublime M40 Italian Semovente from Steve

Eade plus a Special Forces Humvee build

from Dean Cavey. So, I hope you enjoy this

issue of SMMI, and all that remains for me

to say is....

Happy Modelling

Andy Evans

Editor